Classification from Antiquity to Modern Times : : Sources, Methods, and Theories from an Interdisciplinary Perspective / / Walter Bisang, Tanja Pommerening.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2017
• HerausgeberIn: Bisang, Walter,; Pommerening, Tanja,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 350 p.)

Frühes Wissen um Mensch und Natur weist häufig kulturelle Parallelen auf. Daraus ergibt sich die Unterscheidung zwischen universellen und spezifischen Konzepten. Universell meint dabei weniger etwas, das überall und stets vorhanden ist, als vielmehr etwas, das zeitlich und räumlich bei vergleichbare...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Contents
• Classification and Categorization through Time
• Categorization and Explanation of the World in Hesiod’s Theogony
• What is a horse? Lexical Acculturation and Classification in Egyptian, Sumerian, and Nahuatl
• All Creatures Great and Small – The Ancient Egyptian View of the Animal World
• Classification Systems and Pharmacological Theory in Medieval Collections of Materia Medica: A Short History from the Antiquity to the End of the 12th Century
• Classification in Ancient Egyptian Medical Formulae and its Role in Re-Discovering Comprehensive and Specific Concepts of Drugs and Effects
• Classification between Grammar and Culture – a Cross-Linguistic Perspective
• Classification and Naming of Living Objects – a Biologist’s Perspective (Extended Abstract)
• Tools, Agency and the Category of Living Things
• Categorizing Natural Objects: Some Issues Arising from Recent Work in Cognitive Anthropology and Ethnobiological Classification
• Frames as a Model for the Analysis and Description of Concepts, Conceptual Structures, Conceptual Change and Concept Hierarchies
• Tracing Concepts – Semantic Network Analysis as a Heuristic Device for Classification
• Index
• List of Contributors